An Intoxication of Roses.

I ’m not sure what the collective noun for roses is but I retrieve ‘ an poisoning ’ is as good as any . A couplet of long time ago I wrote about amazing rose garden constitute in an old lime prey which I visited many years ago where over 500 pink wine had gone risky to make a catch some Z’s Beauty wilderness of breathtaking beauty . They were n’t snip or give but they all look very healthy . Here is the connection . Everything ’s Coming up Roses . I think I should care to do the same thing here when I am too previous and frail to garden , I shall just countenance the roses take over and do their own thing . And I ca n’t think of anything more beautiful . In fact the front garden is already set about to look that style because I do n’t like forge there in the time of the plague because of over -enthusiastic puffing joggers and cyclists and garrulous neighbours come too close . So it is get godforsaken and woolly-headed and the roses are call for over . These ones along the front of the fencing look like Hybrid Musks to me but I am not sure . Whatever they are they are utilitarian because they are repeat flowering .

The logic gate is guard by this alba move up and Clematis ‘ Contesse de Bouchard ’ .

Further up we have darker pink ones . I ’m not sure of the variety but it travels around as do all the ones in the front garden .

The purplish rose is ‘ Rhapsody in Blue ’ which is not really blue , thank good . Who wants a racy jump ?

There are two tears pear tree ‘ Pyrus saliciifoliain the front garden which are utilitarian for growing roses up . The first one has ‘ the rambler ‘ Veilchenblau ’ .

Next to it is ’ Felicite Perpetue ’ .

In the yew there is a climber ‘ Karlesruhe ’ which is repeat flowering .

Of naturally any ego respecting Tudor business firm has to have roses round the door even if the front of the house is late Georgian .

allow ’s go round into the back garden now where aside from next door ’s cat Luther there is nobody to interrupt us .

The pink wine were three weeks early this year and they started in late May instead of their proper time in June . I did try a little video to show some of them and several friend seemed surprised that I put up it as it was so shaky and jerky . Clearly I have a mass to larn . The Pianist said I would get trolled if I put it on Youtube but my blogging friends are such nice , kind , masses and everyone was very civilised . So I might have another go sometime . But I did n’t cope to get around all my roses . So here are some more . Everyone who comes to the garden decrease for the David Austin rose ‘ Summer Song ’ , it is such a full-bodied coloring material .

Nearby is another David Austin , this fourth dimension a paler shade of apricot . It is ‘ Evelyn ’ ,

We all love David Austin pink wine , they are invincible . I have quite a few and my front-runner are ‘ Grace ’ ‘ Teasing Georgia ’ and ‘ Munstead Wood ’ which is such a mythologic rich colour .

But then how could I leave out beautiful Lady Emma Hamilton ’ who has gorgeous flowers , leave and stems ?

And I also have ‘ Mill on the Floss ’ ‘ Gentle Hermione ’ ‘ Anne Boleyn ’ and ‘ Imogen ’ and they are all just as beautiful .

I have a special liking for single roses and ‘ Sally Holmes ‘ blooms all summer long as long as you dead head her .

Of course most roses need full sunlight to really do well and in a fledged garden one run out of cheery point . But on the other hired man there are wad of Tree and here nearly every tree has a rose run up it . The lovely pure lily-white singleRosa leavagata‘Cooperi’has scaled the bulwark and is heading into the greengage plum tree diagram . This come up need a cheery spot but I love for its healthy green leaves as well it its flush , but it is very prickly .

Nearby towering over the glasshouse is a seedling I grew from a Kiftsgate rose and it clearly has ambitions to develop as big as its parent . It is grow up a holly and I witness these make dependable hosts for rambling roses .

It is fun to grow rose from seed because you never know quite what you will get . This next blush wine grows at a much more sober tempo and is very pretty . I do n’t bed who its parents were .

Some of the ramble on roses I have growing up Malus pumila trees are now tremendous and I wonder how the poor Tree will manage if they get any bigger .

And although ‘ Phyllis Bide ’ look wonderful scrambling over the arch into my undercover garden I am not sure how long they will be able to support them . I shall have to do some hard pruning .

‘ Blush Rambler ’ is mount up the dais of the cherry tree I had chop down . I think it depend lovely with the sorry leaves of the Forest Pansy .

Albertine ’ is an old wichuraiana rambler , bred in 1921 in France . It is still a popular one and rightly so . It has a adorable essence and beautiful coppery pink flowers . It is easy from clipping . by the way , now is a good time to take rosaceous film editing whilst they are still whippy . Take ones about the heaviness of a pencil .

Climbing roses are not as rearing as ramblers and so they can be farm up smaller trees or bush . I enjoy the single flush of ‘ Mermaid ”

And I adore the complex shape and gorgeous colour of ‘ James Galway ’ which a fellow blogger identify for me .

‘ Lady Hillingdon ’ has scrumptious flowers which look as if they have been dip in teatime . She is too idle to harbour up her head though .

I have more than sixty roses so I ca n’t write about them all here but you may see my obsession is bit by bit take over . They get minimal tutelage , a piece of pruning and I do feed them once a twelvemonth . I never spray and if any rose suffer badly from blackspot or rusting then they have to go , I have n’t got any room for shut-in .

50 Responses toAn Intoxication of Roses.

Oh what a fabulous regalia of roses Chloris . Your garden certainly must smack intoxicate when they are at their eyeshade . I ’m green with envy . Here I ’m wait for the first bloom of ‘ Summer call ’ to unfurl . It ’s advance has been block by the inclement atmospheric condition of the last few days . When I say first I think that it could be the one and only – bought as a naked root plant life last autumn it has a tall leader stick out the undivided blossom and no signs of any other heyday lower down yet . I take in it at a show a twosome of yr ago and was potty . I like your no meaninglessness approach shot when it comes to the sickly .

Like you , I love single roses , and you have some beautiful ones . rambler fascinate me , if for no other ground than the discussion rambler ! I have always wanted to grow Rambling Rector , but I do n’t think it would be felicitous here in the foothill of North Carolina . I hope you and the Pianist are stay safe from Covid and that someday we will be capable to journey again . Your garden was the highlight of a stumble I take several years ago with Marian StClair . You and the Pianist are such warm hosts ! My practiced , Martha Strain Shelby , NC USA

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Oh my , you do have a LOT of roses ! I ’m a small in love life with ‘ Summer Song ’ . I ca n’t say I ’ve seen anything like your display here but then ramblers in general are uncommon , at least in my part of the land . I do n’t think I ’d ever even heard of a “ rambler rosebush ” before reading UK garden blogs .

I loved this post on rosiness as I too love them best . My female parent ’s cousin ( Wilfred Wright ) was a celebrated rosaceous grower in Formby and won the Southport Flower show every year . However that was the old generation . I would have loved to have walk past all your beautiful rose and absorbed the perfume .maybe next yr ! !

Your roses are brilliant . Very much enjoyed seeing your collection . They do not calculate in any direction neglected !

What a adorable lot of pink wine you have , I have quite a few but distance is limited in my garden . You have given me an approximation though , we have two old orchard apple tree trees in our garden and whilst they do hold yield most years , I am wondering about trying a rose up at least one of them . How do you manage pruning , dead heading etc when they are way up in the top of the tree diagram ? Not agile enough to be climb trees these days .

An Intoxication of Roses.